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Action Plan for developing a culture of inquiry in the school

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Action Plan to Develop a culture of Inquiry


IMPLEMENTATION
EVALUATION
Activities
Person Responsible
Resources
Expenses
What evidence indicates progress?
How & when (or if) evidence will be gathered
Needs Assessment
Me
1. Google Survey tools - survey
2. School email system
None
Completion of survey by staff
Google tools gathers results
Professional book club
1. Me
2. Pro-D committee
3. members
1. Copy of book (Comprehension & Collaboration – by Daniels & Harvey)
2. Copy of guiding questions
3. pro-d form from school district
4. Wiki page on book
Per book – $40.63

Copy centre - $1-2 per booklet for guiding questions
1. After book talk – the amount of staff who are interested in joining book club
2. Discussion/engagement of book (& guiding questions)
3. People wanting to:
· know more
· collaborate
· apply for professional partnerships
1. Online questionnaire about book.
2. Quantitative data regarding requests for more information, collaboration or professional partnerships
Professional Partnerships

(Collaboration funded by school district $)
People who want to work together
1. Professional partnership application
2. Teacher-librarian
3. Resources related to project (professional book, student resources, etc)
4. Wiki page on partnerships
No start up expenses. If granted,
the partnership will cover days off for collaborating teachers and possibly inservice costs
Depending on project various indicators will indicate progress.
· classroom units
· completed student projects
· grades of students
· engagement of students (anecdotal)
All partnerships must present at the district professional partnership day. A presentation can include:
· sample units
· student exemplars
· student anecdotes
· 3 dimensional display
· electronic display

IMPLEMENTATION
EVALUATION
Activities
Person Responsible
Resources
Expenses
What evidence indicates progress?
How & when (or if) evidence will be gathered
Examples of Guided Inquiry
Me
1. Internet resources available on wiki – this will be ongoing
None
Number of visitors to the page on the wiki

Co-planning
Co-teaching

(collaboration on teacher time)
1. Me
2. volunteers
3. Professional partnership-ers
Depends on subject area, but will need:
· Learning outcomes
· access to classroom (for co-teaching
· access to library / computer labs
· variety of resources (online and print -- variety of reading levels)
Depending on topic areas – some easier reading or French resources might need to be purchased. Well within budget of library ($25,000)
1. The number of opportunities (requests) to co-plan, co-teach.
1. Collection of examples of inquiry projects
2. Questionnaire/anecdotal responses from colleagues
3. Reflection sheets 1,2 & 3 from SLIM (Todd, Kuhlthau, & Heinstrom, 2005)
Staff Newsletter to try to convince more colleagues
Me
Staff Newsletter (From your Library) that each staff member will get. In addition to regular features, a new feature of Guided Inquiry will be added.
None
1. The amount of newsletters not found in the recycling J
 1. Conversations/email amongst colleagues (or with me) regarding newsletter items
2. Requests for more information
Pro-d
Professional development committee
If enough people are interested, a form for presenters can be filled out. The district Pro-d committee can then determine if a speaker can come to our district.
TBA
1. Number of people interested
If pro-d can be arranged, then evaluations from presentation can be utilized.
Needs Assessment
Me
A second needs assessment – or a ‘how did the semester work?’ survey
none
1. An increase in the responses to web 2.0, collaboration, library usage.
Google documents

Resources
Todd, R., Kuhlthau, C. & Heinstrom, J. (2005). School library impact measure. Rutgers University.